Veeam Backup for Office 365 v1.5 Overview

Yesterday, Veeam released Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v1.5. Organizations have a solution to many of their business requirements, challenges, and requests (backup online, backup of Exchange on-premise, VBO proxy deployment, REST API and GUI, new support for regions such as German, Chinese, US government etc., worker threads / bandwidth limit, scheduling changes). Service providers are now given the ability to build-out a new Backup as a Service solution for their customers’ Office 365 email data (post of Mike Resseler).

Support for multiple repositories: Streamlines data backup and restore processes.

Support for backup and restore of on-premises and hybrid Exchange organizations: Allows a variety of configurations and usage scenarios and implement those that meet your particular needs.

Increased performance: Restore operations allows for up to 5 times faster restores than in v1.0.

Restore of multiple datastore mailboxes using Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange: simplifies workflow and minimizes workload for restore operators, as well as 1-Click restore of a mailbox to the original location.

RESTful API and PowerShell cmdlets: Helpful for automation of routine tasks and integration into existing or new portals.

UI Enhancements: Including main window, wizards, dialogs, and other elements, facilitating administration of the solution.

Upgrade is supported only for product version 1.0 and 1.0 Update 1 (Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 build 1.0.0.912, Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange – build 9.5.0.912).
No upgrade options will be supported for beta versions of the program. To prepare for upgrade to v1.5, follow the instructions provided in the “Upgrading the Program” section of the User Guide. Remember that both components should be upgraded:

Run the Veeam Backup Office365 setup from the downloaded archive,

Run the Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange setup from the downloaded archive.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 version 1.5 allows you to upgrade certain repositories using the Upgrade Repository command. For example, if you add a v1.0 repository to v1.5 management server, this repository will be displayed in the navigation tree as an Out of date object. Select this object and run the Upgrade Repository command for it. The progress indicator (in percent) for repository upgrade will be shown in the preview pane.
When the upgrade is completed, this repository will be displayed in the navigation tree as usual.